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The role of the party that states this deal — the offer's counterparty as a governed word: manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, reseller, shop. What matters at the store's own seat is the role — a quote reads differently from the maker than from the open bulk market — and roles are commerce's small set: this vocabulary grows only through the pool's own judged lane, never mechanically, and two growth candidates are already on record with named triggers (a private-party role at the first second-hand walk-in; a role-unknowable case per the brand-unknown precedent). The concrete entity behind the role is mostly a local record, not a word: most counterparties have no stable, universal name a shared language could govern, and their full identity — common name, address, contact — is the phonebook, which belongs to the ordering layer. The concrete counterparty therefore rides as optional metadata, the party name qualifier, added when it earns its place: the moment a second party of the same role faces the same product, the two deals must be told apart, out loud. Two absence laws, written, never inferred: an offer that carries NO offered-by statement is the store's own — absence means the house; and every offered-by statement MUST carry its stance qualifier (addressed or observed) — the stance is the cost-defining switch and may never be mute. One derivation law: when the role is manufacturer, who is never restated — the product's identity already names its maker of record, and the read joins them; restating it would be a second way to say one thing. Named parties join the language only where a role already gives them a word — makers through the manufacturer vocabulary; everyone else remains a data-layer record, exactly as stock places do.